
he will certainly tell some lie to save appearances.

Who fears the wolf should never enter the forest. What?

Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.

He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.

People are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.

Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard; it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.

I am too young and I've loved you too much.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

In order to judge a man, one must first observe him more closely.

But, gentlemen, whoever can pride himself on his diseases and even swagger over them?

When God will chastise a man, He first of all deprives him of his reason ...

I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!

FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children. When

In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.

In a word, many flattering things were said of them. But there was some criticism. People spoke with horror of the number of books they had read.

And you and I had better go work on the land. I want to scrape the earth with my hands.

I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

It was more difficult not to
understand than to understand.

For the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems now
that it has failed ... (Everything seems stupid when it fails.)

Pass on by us and forgive us our happiness

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

He had a distant sense that all this optimism was also morbid

For the whole world to vanish into thin air, or for me not to drink my tea? I say, let the world perish if I can always drink my tea.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.

The greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

I just said it for the beauty of the style.

very acutely conscious

You don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal.

Heavy burdens are not for everyone, for some they are impossible ... These are my thoughts, if you need them so much.

Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.

Reason is passion's slave, is it not?

Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are.

Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it's not true and that it's blushing now just as I am blushing all over.

And in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime

Man is bound to lie about himself

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.